Self-Care/Resilience strategies for service practitioners: Choosing calmness, hope and agency over chaos, lethargy, and despair 2(3hr sessions)
Child welfare practitioners are continuously exposed to trauma and stress that can be internalised as secondary trauma and compassion fatigue, with debilitating consequences to their professional and personal well-being. If inculcated trauma is to be averted, providers must come to understand that they can neither give to the children and families they are charged to serve, nor themselves from an empty cup. Self-care / resilience development provide the recognizing of work-related trauma and offers a tending to its remediation through persistent practices of health and wellbeing care.
Reclamation of Calmness, hope, and action. Here, we examine the possibilities of self and society as inseparably bonded in I am because you are philosophies, for when we are unambiguously connected, we tend to care for a resilient self within a contextual consciousness of communal relationships. We look at mind-body connections and routines of self-celebratory care so the whole of self can be present in service of traumatized families.
In this two-part training, we will look at the development of the self, resilience and the inculcation of self care practices for child welfare professionals. The training will include defining trauma, recognizing the risks associated with the continuous exposure of clients’ trauma on the wellbeing of their support teams. The training will illumine the interplay of narrative identity and resilience on provider(caregiver) willingness and skillfulness to self-nurture. Participants will take away strategies for self-monitoring and self-soothing in the face of daily trauma exposure and potential workplace-overwhelm.
DAY ONE- Self-care is not self-indulgence, but rather self-preservation and that is political resistance- Audre Lorde
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
1. Be able to articulate the development of individual and community worldviews as they relate to beliefs of self-care.
2. Be able to articulate the connections between self-awareness, joy, and well-being.
3. Begin to recognize the markers of chronic trauma-exposed behavior .
4. Understand the interconnections of intrapsychic, socio-historic and work related-trauma.
The training is offered in the spirit of unity and interconnectedness, in the premise that we cannot access and maintain stewardship of human interconnection if we do not nurture and persistently practice personal wellbeing.
DAY TWO: We cannot access and maintain stewardship in humanity if we do not nurture continuous self-care in celebratory rituals.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
1. Be able to differentiate between self-care, self-maintenance, and self-indulgence.
2. Learn core elements of daily centering practices .
3. Assess the importance of critical introspection.
